Curved brick walls, often called crinkle crankle or serpentine walls, offer structural advantages over straight walls, particularly in resisting lateral forces like wind. Architectural records show that building continuous, wavy walls was a technique known to the Egyptians some four thousand years ago.
While they may appear to use more bricks due to their length, they often require fewer bricks overall because their curved shape allows for a thin single-layer construction that is still stable and strong.
Gilbert Street, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1 comment:
Now that is interesting...and they are interesting visually too..thanks.
I wouldn't have known exactly what I was seeing.
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